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Thursday, 31 July 2014

All
eyes are on Gaza, where the death toll from Israel’s merciless
bombing campaign has topped
1,000.

But
back in Jerusalem, where sixteen-year-old Muhammad
Abu Khudair
was burned alive by Jewish vigilantes in a “revenge killing”
incited by Israeli politicians early this month, right-wing lynch
mobs continue to roam the streets in search of Arabs to attack.

Their
most recent victims are twenty-year-old Palestinians Amir Shwiki and
Samer Mahfouz from the Beit Hannina neighborhood in occupied East
Jerusalem. The pair were severely beaten into unconsciousness on
Friday night by Israeli youths armed with iron bars and baseball
bats.

Mahfouz
told
the Israeli newspaper Haaretz
that he and Shwiki were on their way to the light rail when they were
stopped by “a man [coming] from the direction of Neve Yaakov,”
an illegal Jewish-only Israeli settlement in occupied East
Jerusalem.

“He
said give me a cigarette. I told him I don’t have any, and he heard
[from my accent] I’m Arab and went away, coming back with his
friends, maybe twelve people. They had sticks and iron bars and they
hit us over the head,” Mahfouz recounted.

Haaretz
added, “According to the victims, police officers that arrived at
the scene did not call an ambulance, and they were instead evacuated
by passersby to receive medical treatment at a Beit Khanina [sic]
clinic. They were later rushed to Hadassah University Hospital, Ein
Karem in serious condition.”

Though
investigators believe the beating to be racially
motivated,
no one has been arrested.

Police
complicity

Amir
Shwiki and Samer Mahfouz were hospitalized after being beaten by
Israeli settlers Friday. (Facebook)

Israeli
police have a pattern of ignoring hate crimes against Palestinians,
as was the case immediately following the reported kidnapping of
Muhammad Abu Khudair. Police did
not immediately respond
when his family called to report that he had been kidnapped and they
actively thwarted efforts to locate those who murdered him by
spreading
false rumors
that Abu Khudair was murdered by his family in an “honor killing”
over his sexuality.

Police
also neglected
to respond
when Abu Khudair’s murderers tried to kidnap ten-year-old Mousa
Zalum from the same East Jerusalem neighborhood two days earlier.

When
police aren’t busy ignoring Jewish vigilante violence against
Palestinians, they are actively participating in it.

On
Thursday night last week, police teamed up with a Jewish mob
assaulting two Palestinian men while they were delivering bread to
grocery markets on Jaffa Street in West Jerusalem from their van.

The
men — identified by Ma’an
News Agency
as twenty-year-old Amir Mazin Abu Eisha and Laith Ubeidat (age not
specified) — were encircled and beaten with empty bottles by a mob
of some twenty to thirty Israelis, according to their attorney,
Khaldun Nijim.

Rather
than assist the men as they were being attacked, Nijim told
Ma’an, “The Israeli police stopped them in their van and pointed
guns at them.”

Nijim
added: “After they drove away a few meters, the police shot at
them. They then stopped and were assaulted again.”

After
barring an ambulance from transferring Abu Eisha, who sustained head
and ear injuries, to the hospital for medical treatment, police
detained the two Palestinian men at the Russian Compound police
station close to the scene and charged them with “having a knife
and obstructing the work of police,” according to Nijim.

Abu
Eisha and Ubeidat were eventually released on bail but are currently
under ten days of house arrest. Meanwhile, several of the mob
participants filed complaints against their victims, accusing the men
of trying to assault them with a knife.

Racist
activism on the rise

The
same Ma’an article notes that in Jerusalem, “Jaffa street has
been covered with flyers warning Arabs not to ‘touch’ Jewish
women in recent weeks, as part of a right-wing Jewish campaign to
prevent mixing among Jews and Arabs.”

The
fliers were probably designed and distributed by Lehava,
a fanatical anti-miscegenation group whose sister organization,
Hemla, receives
state funding
to “rescue” Jewish women from romantic relationships with Arab
men.

Leanne
Gale, an anti-racist activist living in Jerusalem, recently reported
on her blog that Lehava has been holding
nightly gatherings
in West Jerusalem’s Zion Square and littering all of Jerusalem with
stickers and fliers in Arabic that state, among other things, “Do
not even think about a Jewish woman.”

Other
catchphrases adorned on Lehava T-shirts and stickers include “Jews
love Jews” and “The women of Israel for the nation of Israel,”
according to Gale.

Fascist
mobs from Haifa to Tel Aviv

Violent
mobs of anti-Arab fascists aren’t isolated to Jerusalem.

Last
week in Haifa, the Arab deputy mayor and his son were
brutally beaten by
a mob of Jewish supremacists chanting “death to Arabs” and “death
to leftists” in response to a rally against the Gaza onslaught.
Police did nothing to stop the assault.

Similar
fascist demonstrators have surfaced in supposedly liberal Tel
Aviv as well,
verbally and physically attacking
Palestinians and leftists protesting the war on Gaza.

Israeli
blogger Elizabeth Tsurkov, who has been regularly attending and
live-tweeting
the racist attacks against anti-war demonstrators in recent weeks,
heard a new racist chant mocking the more than two hundred children
slaughtered by Israel’s merciless bombing campaign in Gaza:
“Tomorrow there’s no school in Gaza, they don’t have any
children left.”

While
calls for extermination have been rampant both in
the streets of Israel
and on Israeli socialmedia
for months, the “death to Arabs” sentiment is not isolated to
vigilantes.

Take
for example Israeli lawmaker Ayelet
Shaked,
a rising star in the far-rightwing Jewish Home party, who recently
called
for genocide by
slaughtering Palestinian mothers to prevent them from giving birth to
“little snakes.”

Fast
forward several weeks, and the United Nations is reporting an
alarming
rise
in miscarriages and premature births in Gaza, where newborn
infants are dying
due electricity blackouts that shutdown their incubators.

Another
Israeli public official inciting violence is Dov Lior, Chief Rabbi of
the illegal West Bank settlement Kiryat Arba, who issued
a religious edict declaring
that it is permissible under Jewish religious law for the Israeli
army to “punish the enemy population with whatever measures it
deems proper,” even if that means “exterminat[ing] the enemy.”

Since
then, portions of Gaza have been reduced to rubble in apocalypse-like
scenes that look indistinguishable from the flattened cities of
Syria.

With
all eyes glued to Israel’s destruction of the besieged Gaza Strip,
little attention is being paid to the heightened levels of racism in
Israeli society as demands for “death to Arabs” echo across the
country with devastating consequences for Palestinians
from Shujaiya to Qalandiya to Jerusalem
to Haifa

For
the sake of discussion, here is some discussion between Michael Green
and Pepe Escobar.

Discussing
Sergei Glazyev

Michael
Green: Yes, well, I can see why the Saker and Pepe Escobar are
asking this embarrassing question. After all, Glazyev presented 180
degrees out of phase from Putin in this piece. He even mentioned
Nazis, which Putin, with his usual nod to the principle of
gentlemanly comity, almost never does. A more honest way of framing
the question, therefore, is not whether Glazyev was right. But,
rather, why they were so wrong.

Let's
look at that, shall we? In trying to install its missile batteries in
the Ukraine, America and NATO showed us their overall strategic plan.
The missiles, when launched, would take mere minutes (seconds?) to
get to Moscow, which is 400-500 miles away. That would mean the
Russians would have to make the fateful decision to retaliate in just
three minutes, maybe even less. Why would anyone take that risk?

For
one reason only, which would be to launch a first strike. There is no
other reason possible, unless they were insane. This was not a random
or insane strategy, however. It was bold and calculated. It relied on
Putin to be Putin. We don't have to like our enemies to respect their
daring or strategic skill on the grand chessboard. How reckless a
move was it? It wasn't all that reckless, as long as Putin dithered
and remained in character.

Unlike
Pepe and the Saker, my confidence in Putin remains at an all time
low. We saw where that led just recently, when he turned his back on
the Ukraine. Things recently changed, yes, but America is now trying
to insert a wedge between the separatists in the SE and Russia
itself. Part of it, we know, will involve treachery and false flags.

Back
to reality, however. When this presentation by Glazyev was first
published several weeks ago, I thought it was right on the money. For
what it's worth, I still do.

Pepe
Escobar: Michael Green - exceptional good points. I'll be
deconstructing Glazyev before I write my next piece. And yes, I was
underestimating how spot on he is - especially after I had some DC
feedback.

Off
Pepe Escobar's timeline:

PE:
Michael Green - exceptional good points. I'll be deconstructing
Glazyev before I write my next piece. And yes, I was underestimating
how spot on he is - especially after I had some DC feedback.

MG:
Thank you, Pepe. I didn't mean to "paint it black" with an
infinitely wide brush, however. Mostly, I love your articles and your
wit/analytics. You're my go-to person on any number of things. You
have, however, likened Putin to the "Lao Tzu of Chess".

The
Russian energy deals notwithstanding, however, I still see the game
in the Ukraine as having been more a game of Chicken.

Putin
was damned if he did and damned if he didn't, so he mostly just
dithered and lost precious time and opportunity. Now, no one
suggested that he invade Kiev with tanks. The suggestion - and
Glazyev's too - was that Russia step-up and provide the Resistance
with appropriate weapons.

The
few weapons the SE had until recently were assuredly not from Russia,
even if the Saker suggested that they were. Here, I'm relying on what
Streklov himself said. (As the leader of the SE forces, I'd deem him
to be much more reliable than the Saker.)

Now,
I get that you are waiting for Russia to do something after all these
false flags, but as long as Putin does it tacitly and covertly -
skulking around even in mentioning the word "Nazis" - he
will have lost the real game that's being played.

What's
particularly worrisome, since a lot of people have justified Putin's
actions based on their fear of WW III, is that no one in the West
takes Putin seriously any more. Consider the fact that the doctrine
of MAD (mutually assured destruction) worked as a deterrent force
only if one knew about the military capability of the other side and
ALSO believed in its willingness to use it.

No
one much believes in Putin's willingness to act along those lines any
more, and people are walking all over him. He recently sent Syria a
batch of ground to ship missiles. Then Israel LEAKED that it bombed
that shipment, ostensibly in a test to see what Putin would do. He
did nothing, of course, and predictably, the sarin false flag was
raised within weeks. The same thing has happened in the Ukraine again
and again and again.

Putin
is very smart, to be sure, but he is no Glazyev. Putin, perhaps, is
much more like Neville Chamberlain. Has he finally had some kind of
epiphany? I dunno. This covert bullshit has to stop up and down the
line, however, come what may.

PE:
Michael, spot on on may layers. Putin's strategy, as I understood it
in May in St. Petersburg, was that he didn't want to burn any bridges
with Europe, business-wise. From now on this is about to change,
because he's seen how Washington is succeeding in manipulating the
poodles. Glazyev went Sex Pistols while Putin was trying a Barry
Manilow. No more.

MG:
Great metaphors as always, Pepe. I get the Barry Manilow part but the
Sex Pistols may be overstated. What I mostly want to know is how
Glazyev can be an "adviser" to Putin, when he appears to be
so much at odds with Putin. IF Glazyev overstated the danger, do you
suppose it might not be because Putin was radically underestimating
it? Again, why would the Americans be wanting to place missiles in
the Ukraine, just minutes from Moscow - giving it virtually no time
for a measured response - if not because of wanting a first strike
capability? Here, I think Glazyev is being a pragmatist, not a
testosterone-junkie. And, absolutely, Putin is Barry Manilow. There
is no changing one's character. As such, Putin is the Frog in that
famous parable. Definitely not the Scorpion.

Kiev
authorities may be seeking to “destroy evidence” which implicates
their role in the crash of the Malaysian jet, Russia's UN envoy
Vitaly Churkin said, expressing concerns over the ongoing military
operation in E. Ukraine in breach of UN resolution.

According
to Churkin, the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko promised a
cease-fire in the disaster area,“but
this promise was immediately broken, while Ukrainian officials have
publicly announced a new task – to cleanse of the militias and take
control of this territory,"
Churkin said in New York.

Such
actions directly violate UN Security Council resolution 2166, which
calls for a ceasefire and for thorough and impartial investigation
into the Boeing tragedy under the ICAO umbrella, Churkin added.

“We
fear that Kiev authorities are moved by the intention to destroy
evidence, implicating their role in the Malaysian airliner
catastrophe,”
Churkin said.

In
order to ensure compliance with the ceasefire resolution and
reinforce it, on Monday the Russian delegation to the UN proposed to
adopt“a simple
and unambiguous statement to the press.”

“However,
[Russia’s proposal] was unceremoniously blocked by some members of
the Security Council, clearly not interested in strict compliance
with resolution 2166,”
Churkin explained.

Once
again urging for a ceasefire in Ukraine, Churkin reminded the Council
that the Netherlands, Australia and Malaysia have mobilized
“considerable
resources”
to investigate the crash.

Russia
in the meantime handed over its surveillance data of the disaster
area of the Boeing 777 crash.

"We
have passed the objective observation data of the disaster area to
the international organizations, including the UN and the OSCE. We
expect that others will also act concretely and constructively,
instead of spreading unsubstantiated accusations and insinuations,"
said the Russian diplomat.

The
Ambassador said that Russia is “offering
all kinds of assistance to the investigation,"
highlighting that Russian Civil Aviation Authorities “promptly
formulated questions that need to be clarified to reveal the full
picture of the tragedy."

At
the same time, Churkin pointed out that despite the willingness of
anti-Kiev forces to cooperate with the efforts of the investigators,
as noted by Australia's MH17 special envoy and former Air Chief
Marshal Angus Houston, the investigative team is still having trouble
reaching the crash site.

“One
of the key provisions of the resolution, which was included at the
insistence of the Russian delegation, is the requirement to
immediately, in the area adjacent to the site of the disaster, cease
all military action in order to allow for safety and security during
the international investigation.”

‘Vicious
circle of violence’

Churkin
reminded that the world hoped that the Berlin Declaration of July 2
would be able to break the “vicious
circle of violence,”
but Kiev has shown no mercy since then.

“However,
in practice the cruelty of Kiev authorities in fighting is going
through the roof. Donetsk, Lugansk, Gorlovka and many other
localities have undergone massive bombardments, including
indiscriminate Grad fire and aerial assaults,”
Churkin said, pointing out that residential buildings, hospitals and
transportation hubs are deliberately being bombed.

A
woman walks out of a damaged multi-storey block of flats carrying her
belongings following what locals say was recent shelling by Ukrainian
forces in central Donetsk, July 29, 2014. (Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin)

In
most cases, Churkin pointed out, anti-Kiev forces were nowhere near
those objects. He also raised questions about the reported use of
ballistic missiles by the Ukrainian military, which is another clear
sign of a “rampant
military escalation.” Russia qualifies Kiev's actions as “a
punitive operation against its own people,”
the envoy said.

Russia
is on the receiving end of the conflict, as hundreds
of thousands refugees crossing into the Russian territory, more
than 150,000 of whom already officially filed for temporary asylum
and Russian citizenship, Churkin said. In the meantime Ukraine
continues to shell Russian territory near the border, Churkin
reminded.

The
priority now, the diplomat said, should be to end the hostilities and
to establish a peaceful negotiation process on the basis of the
Geneva Declaration of April 17 and the Berlin Declaration of July 2.

‘Exclusionary’
diplomacy fails Palestinians

Touching
on other issues, Churkin switched over to the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict, blaming the US for its approach to mediating the violent
crisis.

“As
the practice shows, crises in Israeli-Palestinian relations often
arise as a result of failure of US unilateral efforts to reconcile
the warring parties. We have repeatedly pointed out that the
'exclusionary' method has exhausted itself,”
he said, adding that a new mechanism of crisis resolution is needed
to deal with this urgent matter.

Russia
hopes for China to back idea of humanitarian mission for southeast
Ukraine

Russia
and China will multiply their efforts in the struggle against
terrorism

DUSHANBE,
July 31. /ITAR-TASS/. Russia hopes for China’s support to an
initiative to set up a humanitarian mission for southeast Ukraine,
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a meeting with Chinese
counterpart Wang Yi on the sidelines of a meeting of the Council of
Foreign Ministers from the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation states
in the Tajik capital on Thursday.

Lavrov
thanked Chinese people for the aid they offered to refugees from
Donetsk and Luhansk regions currently staying in Russia. This
friendly gesture will allow drawing attention of the international
community to the tragedy breaking out in Ukraine, the minister said.

Russia
hopes for China’s support to an initiative to set up a humanitarian
mission for southeast Ukraine - Lavrov said at a meeting with the
Chinese counterpart.

Russian
President Vladimir Putin and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping are
expected to meet at summits of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation
(SCO) in Dushanbe and the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation in
Beijing, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a meeting
with Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on the sidelines of a meeting of the
Council of Foreign Ministers of the SCO states in the Tajik capital
on Thursday.

“Chinese
and Russian presidents will have new contacts,” Lavrov said, adding
that these meetings are expected at a SCO summit in Dushanbe and an
APEC summit in Beijing in September.

Russia and China will
multiply their efforts in the struggle against terrorism, Russian
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov added.

The
Russian foreign minister expressed his condolences to the Chinese
people over a recent terrorist act in China.

“This
strengthens our common resolve for multiplying our efforts in the
struggle against this evil,” Lavrov said

30
July, 2014

LONDON:
The Ebola outbreak in west Africa poses a "very serious threat"
to Britain, foreign secretary Philip Hammond said on Wednesday, as
England's public health authority warned the virus was out of
control.

Hammond
was to chair a meeting of COBRA, the government's crisis response
committee, to assess Britain's preparations to cope with any possible
outbreak of the disease.

One
person in Britain has been tested for Ebola, the Department of Health
(DoH) ministry confirmed, but the tests proved negative.

Reports
suggested he had travelled from west Africa to central England.

Health
professionals have been warned to be vigilant for signs of the deadly
virus.

"As
far as we are aware, there are no British nationals so far affected
by this outbreak and certainly no cases in the UK," Hammond told
Sky News television.

"However,
the prime minister does regard it as a very serious threat and I will
be chairing a COBRA meeting later today to assess the situation and
look at any measures that we need to take either in the UK, or in our
diplomatic posts abroad in order to manage the threat.

"We
are very much focused on it as a new and emerging threat which we
need to deal with."

Since
March, there have been 1,201 cases of Ebola and 672 deaths in Guinea,
Liberia and Sierra Leone, according to the US Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.

Dr
Brian McCloskey, director of global health at Public Health England
(PHE), said the body was closely monitoring developments in west
Africa.

"It's
clear the outbreak is not under control," he said in a
statement.

"The
continuing increase in cases, especially in Sierra Leone, and the
importation of a single case from Liberia to Nigeria, is a cause for
concern, as it indicates the outbreak is not yet under control. We
will continue to assess the situation and provide support as
required.

"We
have alerted UK medical practitioners about the situation in west
Africa and requested they remain vigilant for unexplained illness in
those who have visited the affected area."

However,
he added: "The risk of a traveller going to west Africa and
contracting Ebola remains very low, since Ebola is transmitted by
direct contact with the blood or bodily fluids of an infected
person."

Effective
methane transport from these emissions into the hydrosphere was
proven by relative enrichments of dissolved methane in near-bottom
waters. Stable carbon isotopic signatures pointed to a predominant
microbial methane formation, presumably based on high organic matter
sedimentation in this region.

Although
known from many continental margins in the world's oceans, this is
the first report of an active area of methane seepage in the
Southern Ocean.

Our
finding of substantial methane emission related to a trough and
fjord system, a topographical setting that exists commonly in
glacially-affected areas, opens up the possibility that methane
seepage is a more widespread phenomenon in polar and sub-polar
regions than previously thought.

Ukrainian
troops lost 125 armored vehicles in eastern Ukraine in one day —
source

Representatives
of the Ukrainian armed forces have not commented on these reports so
far

30
July, 2014

DONETSK,
July 30. /ITAR-TASS/. Separatist militias in fighting with Ukrainian
government troops near the city of Shakhtyorsk in the country’s
east have put out of action 125 armored vehicles of the Ukrainian
army, said Deputy Defense Minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk
People’s Republic (DPR) Fyodor Berezin.

“The
enemy has lost a total of 125 armored vehicles in Shakhtyorsk
yesterday, including tanks, infantry combat vehicles, armored
personnel carriers,” the DPR official was quoted by the Novorossia
news agency.

Representatives
of the Ukrainian armed forces have not commented on these reports so
far.

On
Wednesday morning, a militia unit was fighting government troops to
seize the outskirts of Shakhtyorsk, representatives of DPR armed
forces said. Ukrainian government artillery had responded by setting
an ammunition depot in the city on fire, the agency added.

Separatist
sources claimed success already in their advance. “Militia fighters
have taken control of Shakhtyorsk, and the National Guard, with
armored vehicles, is hiding in thick foliage,” DPR representatives
said, adding they had put a tank, an artillery system and a truck out
of action.

One
eyewitness report spoke of casualties among militia fighters

Update
on MH17: Running a

circle around the false flag

(Or in sync with
Petri

Krohn's and Max van der

Werff's findings)

Since
virtually signs are pointing to the MH17 tragedy as a deliberate
false flag attack with only side standing to benefit from it,
if it became successful, it is both possible and necessary to sketch
the likely game and to put in sync with Petri
Krohn's and Max
van der Werff's latest analyses:

1.
To pin the blame on the Novorossiya army required establishing a
possible connection to a plausible weapon, that is, a Buk missile
battery since NAF has no air force.

2.
This means that it was needed to use a Buk missile to take down the
plane.

3.
However, to do that also required that the Buk missile be fired as
close to the rebels-held territory as necessary since it would have
been impossible to sneak a battery and a radar unto the rebels-held
territory itself.

4.
This was achieved by positioning a Ukrainian Buk missile battery in
Zaroschenskoye, where the Ukrainian Army parked it just and only for
that day, July 17, when the Malaysian airliner was shot down
presumably by such a Buk missile.

5.
The positioning of the Ukrainian Buk missile battery, documented by
satellite images of the Russian Armed Forces and disclosed in Moscow
on August 21, was made a mere 8 km south of rebels-held Shaktyorsk,
which the junta tried to occupy on July 26-29.

6.
In doing so, the US government and Western media used a deliberately
very imprecise map issued by "the Ukrainian Council of
National Security and Defense:"

The
map is especially greatly imprecise in the south-west part of the war
zone, where it gives to the rebels significantly more territory than
what they held there, as can be easily checked against any other maps
and accounts. However, it is futile to expect the corporate media or
Western talking heads, i.e. Kerry or Psaki, to have any desire to be
precise on this account.

7.
A better map showing the situation around July 17 is this one, even
though this one too is not sufficiently detailed and thus does not
show the Zaroschenskoye pocket. Map of July 17; but it allows a good
comparison with the US/Ukrainian map and it shows well the bluntly
striking attempt to add to the rebels a huge chunk of the territory
in the south-west, which was and is in the hands of the Kiev regime
and where its Buk missile battery was deployed just for July 17:

8.
A more detailed map (as this one) shows not only where the Ukrainian
battery in Zaroschenkoyoe was placed, but it also shows that the
position was within a thin wedge conveniently, if not precariously
wedged in-between rebel’s-held positions at that time—between
Pokrovka and Blagodatnoye.

10.
Having positioned the Buk missile battery there, it is also very
likely that, if the Ukrainian Army fired a Buk missile, it would have
come from there. This would also be consistent with the fact that the
US refuses to publish its own satellite photos of what it claimed is
its intelligence or established fact that a Buk missile was fired,
while, then on the briefing for US media by “US intelligence
officers” on July 22 in the aftermath of the briefing by the
Russian military offices the day before, a new version of the event
was that people in Ukrainian uniforms or “a Ukrainian defector”
or “Ukrainian drunken soldiers” might have fired the missile “by
mistake.”

11.
From the available information and the ongoing discussions, it does
seem that the Malaysian Boeing was hit while passing Snezhnoe or, at
least, that an attempt to down the plane was made when the plane was
over Snezhnoe.

12.
In order to create the necessary footprint and the false flag
narrative, we can assume, and it is consistent with the information
that is available, that the Ukrainian Buk missile was fired against
the Malaysian airliner.

13.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry’s briefing, when the
plane was struck, it was at a point of trying to return to its flight
path after suddenly veering 14 km off its path to the north-east. The
plane would be thus coming from north-east rather than from
north-west.

14.
According to Aleksandr Zhilin’s analysis (to which I referred
earlier), the plane was proceeding straight and, when hit (by a jet
fighter) made a U-turn to the left over Grabovo.

15.
According to Petri Krohn though, the plane made not only a U-turn,
but almost a circle and crashed when flying from the west and not
from the south-east. According to this version, the cockpit, which
fell in Rozsypne several kilometers from west off Grabovo, was lost
first and then the main body of the plane with the wings and
the engines felled in Grabovo.

16.
To adjudicate between Krohn’s and Zhilin’s version should not be
the difficult. First, it does make sense, if the cockpit or front of
the plane was hit, for this part to fall first, since the inertia
would carry the rest of the plane further (the reverse does not
appear to be likely). Second, the direction of the wings and the
engines should also indicate from which direction the plane was
crashing. From available photos from Grabovo, it appears that the
plane was, indeed, coming from the west. And thus it seems that
Zhilin was mistaken with respect to the direction of the U-turn and
that Krohn is right. Zhilin’s version does account for the
semi-circle made by the plane to the east and back, as outlined in
the Russian Defense briefing.

17.
The crash site is otherwise not only some 20 km past or back from
Snezhnoe, the furthest (southern) known point reached by the MH17
plane, but the direction of the crash site (west-east) is also at
odds with the assumed north-west to east-south flight route of the
Malaysian Boeing. These facts almost completely exclude the US
official version of the story, in which the plane was hit by the
rebels with a Buk fired from Snezhnoe and then fell (sideways) almost
25 km in Grabovo/Rozsypne in front of Snezhnoe.

18.
The sharp deviation of the plane to the east and back is, indeed,
very strange and otherwise inexplicable. It appears that, for a
while, the plane lost its navigation, coordinates, and GPS and did so
right in the middle of the war zone. It is thus very hard to assume
that the plane would be directed to make this “mistake” by
Ukrainian air controllers or by the pilots themselves. If this was,
as it appears to be a false flag operation from the very beginning,
then it would be also possible to assume that this sudden deviation
from the course was not a mistake, but that it might have been
somehow a part of the plan. By making this deviation over the war
zone, it appears that the plane was saying or, better said, even
baiting: “I am a strange plane: Would any civilian plane do this?
Please shoot me!”

19.
By making the deviation, which was then putting the plane more
straight or head-on with respect to the Ukrainian battery in
Zaroschenkoye than sideways (or at an almost right angle:
Zaroschenkoye versus the original flight path from the north-west),
it might have been possible to “fake” the direction and
trajectory from which the missile was fired—aligning the new flight
path with Zaroschenkoye instead of Snezhnoe in order to present the
latter for the former.

20.
The deviation of the plane 14 km off and (almost) back before being
hit would almost indicate that, when the deviation started, the
pilots were either no longer alive or that the plane was either
flying at remote control or on re/pre-programmed auto-pilot, whereby
the deviation was executed.

21.
After this hit or attempt, the plane apparently traveled another
50-70 km (making the loop), which would take some 4-5 minutes with
its travel speed of 900km/h. But since the plane's speed falling to
200km/h, the time would take few additional minutes.

22.
The available information, especially Krohn’s investigation and
analysis, thus seems to be indicating that, if a Ukrainian Buk
missile was fired, it did not fatally destroy the plane. The plane
started losing quickly speed and altitude, but was still capable of
staying in the air and continuing on its new circular
route/deviation.

23.
At this moment, as the Russian Ministry informed, from the left of
the plane, a Ukrainian military fighter appeared, climbing above
5000m towards the plane and then staying in the vicinity of the
Malaysian airliner for at least another 4 minutes.

24.
The damage to the cockpit and the wings does seem to indicate that
the coup de grace delivered to the Boeing was then executed with
either a fighter’s cannon (Krohn's preference) or with a Ukrainian
jet fighter's air-to-air missile(s), which then caused the front part
to sever and fall in Rozsypne before the rest of the plane crashed in
Grabovo. Since the distance between the cockpit and the rest is about
2-3 km, one can also assume that the plane was gunned down not that
far from these two places.

......

A
number of stories are coming these days from (Trans-) Carpathian Rus
about the spreading revolt against the war and the so-called 3rd
mobilization declared by Poroshenko, which, in practice, means
forcibly rounding up of males in public transportation and on the
streets and whisking them to the east as oligarchs' cannon fodder to
die for the sake of new Nazism and NATO's power-drunken Drang nach
Moscow.

The
people in this part of Western Ukraine are no longer just anxious,
they are now also angry and they started setting up check points on
the highways, blocking traffic, which connects Ukraine with (a part
of) Central Europe.

Importantly,
they are growing in numbers and they are also organizing themselves.
Full and complete boycott and refusal of Kiev's oligarchic tyranny is
in order.

Ukrainian
oligarchs are no longer killing only the economy and people's
livelihood, they are now on killing people themselves with their own
private armies and Banderite storm troopers.

If
Ukraine is to save itself from its current fascist tyranny, the
anti-war movement would need to turn into a coordinated
inter-regional movement and start taking local power into their
hands.

Only
constant and active citizens' vigilance can be effective defense
against fascism, which passed a stage of loud marches and armed
itself for war.

There
is nothing on which the junta and the oligarchs can be trusted.
Exposing their lies is a service to humanity.

In
Chernivtsi region dissatisfied with the conduct of mobilizing
residents nearly killed a local Deputy of the "ur-patriot".
Ivan popadiuk - captain of the "Bukovynian hundreds" stood
on the Maidan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KskxI...),
but now actively encourages men to go to war in the zone of ATU.

Video,
German translation, Russian original

The
leader of the "Social Democratic Party" of Moldavia
confirms the presence of US military in Moldavia, trying to recruit
and train soldiers for an attack on "Transnistria", the
province who broke away and appealled for membership in the Russian
Federation to escalate the situation